With the assistance of a Polish interpreter, Przednowek admitted producing 15 cannabis plants.

Trika admitted producing 17 semi-mature cannabis plants.

The court heard that a raid was carried out at their properties on August 6.

Prosecutor Debbie Gibson said a cannabis factory was found in the roof loft of both defendants. New equipment was found in the loft of Przednowek's home including plastic and foil, thermal lamps, thermometers and fans.

Dried cannabis leaves were also found on Trika, she said.

Both defendants admitted to growing the cannabis for personal use.

Ian Haywood, defending, said the crime fell in the lesser penalty category.

Przednowek, who works at The Sauce Company in Scunthorpe, was sentenced to a 12-month community order, 80 hours of unpaid work and must pay £85 costs.

6 comments

shouldnt this be a deportable offence?
personal growing is not the worst crime in the world but one plant would produce enough "crop" to sustain the most hardcore smoker, so anything over 5 should be illegal and counted as commercial and, if foreigners are behind it deport deport deport.....
Then again if the government legalized it, im sure the funds created could pull the country out of this quagmire

Bit(lot) of naivety going on here, The gangsters dont have great big warehouses growing it in vast amounts, they have hundreds of goons growing small amounts so when they get caught it was only for their own use and get away with extremely light sentences.
Interestingly a lot of users of cannabis are going off the stuff because grown in this way(not in sunlight) there is an imbalance in the 2 main chemicals in it, and the one that counteracts the ill effects of the other is only present in low quantities.

The cannabis market is here to stay, but when trade is outlawed only outlaws trade, causing countless harms.
Kids find cannabis easier to obtain than alcohol and tobacco (dealers dont ask for ID) Children are being enticed by the gangsterism cannabis prohibition has helped create, and kids are lured into organized crime. Cannabis being illegal glamorizes it in the eyes of the young rebel. Dealers only sell the stronger strains. Dealers get involved in theft of electricity, human trafficking, gang violence. The list does go on.
Why are people being punished for growing their own? They are avoiding giving money to organized crime, avoiding contamination, avoiding a strain lottery and uncertainty.

Are we so stupid in Britain that we cannot learn the lessons of history? If we prohibit something for which there is huge demand then the price rises and violent criminals become involved.
If we introduced a legally regulated system we would solve nearly all the problems around cannabis. Science proves how much safer it is than tobacco, alcohol, prescription medicines and all other recreational drugs. The evidence is that where legal regulation is introduced, consumption by children and all health and social harms are reduced.
Doctors would be able to prescribe one of the most effective medicines that has no serious side effects at all. At the moment the government has given GW Pharmaceuticals an illegal monopoly on cannabis so they make millions out of a medicine that you can grow in your greenhouse for virtually nothing.
Independent, expert research also indicates that a tax and regulate policy on cannabis would produce a net gain to the UK economy of up to £9.3 billion pa.
Our present policy on cannabis is irrational, irresponsible and dangerous. On 6th November 2012 Colorado and Washington state legalised cannabis for adults, Surely, this inevitable and long overdue reform will now begin to roll out across the world?